EconTalk

By: Russ Roberts
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  • EconTalk: Conversations for the Curious is an award-winning weekly podcast hosted by Russ Roberts of Shalem College in Jerusalem and Stanford's Hoover Institution. The eclectic guest list includes authors, doctors, psychologists, historians, philosophers, economists, and more. Learn how the health care system really works, the serenity that comes from humility, the challenge of interpreting data, how potato chips are made, what it's like to run an upscale Manhattan restaurant, what caused the 2008 financial crisis, the nature of consciousness, and more. EconTalk has been taking the Monday out of Mondays since 2006. All 900+ episodes are available in the archive. Go to EconTalk.org for transcripts, related resources, and comments.
    Copyright 2006-2025
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Episodes
  • The Economics of Tariffs and Trade (with Doug Irwin)

    The Economics of Tariffs and Trade (with Doug Irwin)
    May 5 2025

    Is the United States victimized by trade? What causes trade deficits? Are higher tariffs a good idea? Can manufacturing jobs return to the United States? Economist Doug Irwin of Dartmouth College answers these questions and more in this wide-ranging conversation with EconTalk's Russ Roberts.
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    1 hr and 33 mins
  • The Past and Future of AI (with Dwarkesh Patel)

    The Past and Future of AI (with Dwarkesh Patel)
    Apr 28 2025

    Dwarkesh Patel interviewed the most influential thinkers and leaders in the world of AI and chronicled the history of AI up to now in his book, The Scaling Era. Listen as he talks to EconTalk's Russ Roberts about the book, the dangers and potential of AI, and the role scale plays in AI progress. The conversation concludes with a discussion of the art of podcasting.
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    1 hr and 37 mins
  • Why Christianity Needs to Help Save Democracy (with Jonathan Rauch)

    Why Christianity Needs to Help Save Democracy (with Jonathan Rauch)
    Apr 21 2025

    How does a nice Jewish boy who is also a gay atheist have the chutzpah to lecture Christianity on its obligations to democracy? Listen to author Jonathan Rauch talk about his book Cross Purposes with EconTalk's Russ Roberts as Rauch makes the case for what he calls a thicker Christianity.
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    1 hr and 20 mins
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Fantastic and unbiased

This is the only economics podcast that is both interesting and unbiased. I would highly recommend it to people on both sides of the political spectrum.

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